Salmon Fishing USA

People who fish for a living pursue top profits, not necessarily top predators, according to the first-ever analysis of worldwide catch and economic data for the past 55 years. This differs from the observation raised 10 years ago that humans were "fishing down" the food web. It was assumed that catches of the predators at the top of the food chain, such as halibut and tuna, were declining after ...

SEATTLE (AP) When a National Marine Fisheries Service biologist perused a Seattle cookbook from 1906, most of the seafood recipes involved shellfish. A century later, recipes had moved up the ocean food chain to salmon, halibut and tuna. The Seattle Times reports that by studying 120 years of Northwest seafood recipes, biologist Phil Levin found he could follow fishing and marine life changes ...

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The more I read about seafood, from overfishing to mercury contamination, the less comfortable I feel about eating it. This is sad because seafood used to be my protein of choice. Lately, I’ve been leaning toward nut butter and eggs and have made fish a special occasion food. I’m choosing to give most fish a break, in hopes that others will, too, and there will be enough for us to continue to eat fish and support healthy ocean ecosystems. That means that many items are off my list, but the

We need to save our oceans, and quickly. The most recent and widely cited report on fisheries predicts a complete global fisheries collapse by 2048 and asserts that ninety percent of large fish such as tuna and swordfish are already gone. Other than the people using seafood wallet cards and reading eco-blogs, does anyone care? In a 2008 report on the US Marketplace by Seafood Choices Alliance , chain restaurant operators report that only 22% of their customers are concerned about the e